Living Things

" Living Things thrives." - George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-HeraldWritten in the year after the birth of Matt Rader's first daughter, Living Things honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern "how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and also more so." Using words in lieu of sonar, these poems bounce off the ecology of "shabby saturated grasses" and "panther-eyed armies of salal," and locate both author and reader within a literary genealogy. Matt Rader's poetry brings subtle slowness to a chaotic, fast-paced environment. It is both celebration and documentation of this world and its relationship to all living things.